FASCIST RULE IN ITALY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1928, Page 8

FASCIST RULE IN ITALY.

“UTE AND PROPERTY SATO*

EVERYONE MUST WORK.

“Are you of the Fascieti?” wm tbs question put to Signor Rudolfo Gof—h? in the course of an interview in Welling* ton.

“Everyone in Italy is of the Faedrti?* he answered; “that is, everyone of ady common sense. It would not do to bo otherwise, for Fascism has made social and business life possible in Italy, ani has helped to put her in the forefront line of nations. The outer world cannot realise how seriously Italy was threatened after the war. No one safe; no business was safe; nothing was secure. Strikes and holdups were of everyday occurrence all over the land. People could not move abroad at night without risk of being set upon and robbed, if not killed; the armed bandit was becoming a sort of privileged peraon under the magic word of Communism.

“Then came the ‘black shirts’— tbs Fascisti. It was a heaven-inspired movement that spelt ‘order.’ Gradually but firmly it asserted its strength, and set up a barrier against the lawlessness associated with Communism. Most people were afraid of life itself. It was the dread of becoming another Russia, and probably no one knows how close it was to such a state. But Fascism won its way, and with Mussolini as its head and front has made a new Italy. Life and property are now safe. A person could walk from one end of Italy to the other with a hundred thousand lira in his pockets and not be touched. Law and order prevail.

“Everyone must work to be happy, and Mussolini is seeing that they do, s® it is a busy and hanpy Italy which has emerged from the miasma of Communism. which threatened at one time to overwhelm Europe. I sincerely believ® that Fascism was the means of saving Europe from the fate of Russia.”